There’s no denying that LinkedIn is an exceptional platform for finding prospects, but physically reviewing the massive number of profiles to find qualified people is time consuming, to say the least. Undoubtedly, you have a long to-do list so having access to scraping technology can drastically reduce the time it takes to gather new leads…
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Diversity sourcing requires both practice and patience as a recruiter. LinkedIn is an excellent platform to discover diverse (BLNA) candidates. In this post, I will discuss the main features of LinkedIn Recruiter and provide examples of Boolean strings to locate diverse profiles. First, I wanted to cover some basics and tips and tricks on…
MyRobot.works is a great tool to help automate your LinkedIn tasks. You can use this tool to build different talent pools and then create automated template messages to reach out to them. Overall, it’s a fantastic tool to add to your tool belt as a Sourcer! MyRobot is designed by sales and marketing professionals,…
Early morning on May 6, LinkedIn.com dropped out of Google Search results everywhere. With more than 690 million members, sources instantly began taking notice of the platform’s disappearance. Some chalked it up to a major SEO blunder, but what if there’s more to it? For that short period, anyone who tried to find web…
Being able to search for someone’s LinkedIn profile using an email address is very important hack as a Sourcer. There used to be several ways for a Recruiter to cross reference someone’s email using Rapportive, Sales Navigator, and most recently the URL manipulation hack using sales navigator. Unfortunately, all of these methods no longer work. …
The facts are straight forward: around 80% of candidates don’t have an active LinkedIn profile. Globally, the World Bank puts the available workforce at roughly 3.453 Billion people. This means that at most, less than 17% of professionals are on LinkedIn. Taking into consideration the fact that many profiles on LinkedIn are fake, duplicated, or…
This week LinkedIn announced the relaunch of Connectifer extension. Connectifier was a resource for finding candidate information, which can be presented as supplemental to a member’s LinkedIn profile. The information included social media profiles and personal contact information like cell phone numbers or email addresses. What was Connectifier? Connectifier was a talent sourcing and recruitment…
I’ve been an avid user of LinkedIn for over a decade now. Being a full-time Talent Sourcer I’m often on LinkedIn for at least 5-6 hours per day networking, researching, and prospecting for new applicants. My fiancé jokes with me about how much time I actually spend on this site. I know what works and…
I recently had a great discussion about getting into “LinkedIn Jail” on our Talent Sourcers group on Facebook. Kasia Borowicz wrote a recent piece about how she was blocked out of LinkedIn due to viewing too many profiles. She claimed that she was not over viewing profiles on a daily basis. So, I wanted to…
I’ve noticed in the past few weeks that certain users have been getting locked out of LinkedIn and it’s because they’re using browser extensions that violate LinkedIn terms of agreement. Certain extensions are great for scraping for candidate information but you’re taking a risk by using these types of tools. Thankfully, a new extension…
Over the past 11 months on LinkedIn I have performed 1,120 searches, had 13,837 profile views, and send 1,920 inmails. 686 accepted my inmails and 118 declined with an overall response rate of 41.87%. Overall, I have never performed this many searches in my career using LinkedIn Recruiter. I can literally say that I’m logged…